puth

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *putsa, from Proto-Indo-European *puḱ- (press together) (compare Ancient Greek πύκα (púka, thickly, strongly), Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬯𐬁 (pusā, headband, diadem).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [puθ]

Verb

puth (aorist putha, participle puthur)

  1. (transitive) to kiss

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • puth”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Newmark, L. (1999), “puth”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]

Irish

Etymology

Probably from English puff, but at any rate imitative.

Noun

puth f (genitive singular puithe, nominative plural putha or puthanna)

  1. puff, whiff (exhalation)
  2. puff (ability to breathe)
  3. (cooking) puff
    puth uachtaircream puff

Declension

Declension of puth (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative puth putha
vocative a phuth a phutha
genitive puithe puth
dative puth
puith (archaic, dialectal)
putha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an phuth na putha
genitive na puithe na bputh
dative leis an bputh
leis an bpuith (archaic, dialectal)
don phuth
don phuith (archaic, dialectal)
leis na putha
  • Alternative plural form: puthanna

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • puth-thaosrán m (puff pastry)
  • puthaíl f (act of puffing)
  • puthaire m (belch (of smoke))
  • subhphuth f (jam-puff)

Mutation

Mutated forms of puth
radical lenition eclipsis
puth phuth bputh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading